The Great Circus 2000 is the memoir of a young pilot in the Free French Air Force seconded to the Royal Air Force squadrons. Never before have the fury of aerial dogfights, the agony in the flames, and the anti-aircraft batteries been so vividly described. These texts, written day by day, place the reader in the cockpit of a fighter plane, always, hundreds of mornings later, with the underlying anxiety of wondering if this day will be the last. Published worldwide, a landmark book that William Faulkner would call "the only great book to come out of the Second World War," this true text is also a profoundly human testimony to the unsuspected virtues often revealed by war. This edition includes the author's complete journal and manuscripts written between 1941 and 1945. Two hundred previously unpublished pages and a significant collection of illustrations complete this 1948 bestseller.